Elite Dangerous VR: From Brilliance to Heartbreaking Disappointment 

Elite Dangerous VR is a sad tale of what could've been, and Frontier has no clue what they've squandered. Still, even in this state, it's THE best VR game money can buy, even after all of these years. A side note too: please read the description if you are curious by the recording choices for the video today! Love to you all, Reggie xxx

The only reason I play ED its because of VR.

What disappoints me the most is that you can open the camera suite which switches you straight back into VR, mount it to where your head should be, then take over control and enjoy complete, immersive, high-performance on-foot VR. This, of course, means you have to sacrifice the HUD and any interaction, but it demonstrates that the engine can fully support it and the integration work would be minimal. That is infuriating. What I do want to congratulate Frontier on is the integration of 128-input controls recently. In some sense Frontier do still care about immersive simmers. I really want to see that glint of hope nurtured into something that revitalises the game and prompts some more VR development

When Odyssey came out, and they announced they were ditching VR, if you searched for Elite Dangerous on youtube and sorted by number of views, 7 of the top 10 videos were all featuring or specifically highlighting VR. Even if it was a minority of players, the VR community provided the majority of viral marketing for the game. Odyssey was an insult for those of us who hyped the game up and spent hundreds of dollars on content over the years. I just couldn't play after that. It felt like going back to an abusive partner.

"Landing become a thrilling and rewarding experience." Me boosting my eagle at 400 m/s through the mail slot

I'm a player of the original Elite. I had a look at ED, but I didn't immediately get captivated. Then my Oculus CV arrived and I tried it. It was astonishingly good. It kept me playing elite for thousands of hours, *all* of them in VR. Then the lies of oddysey started. Their: "VR won't be available at release", slowly turned into an admission that there were zero plans to ever develop it. That's when I logged out for the last time I've never bought oddysey and I've never played it again. If I'm playing in pancake mode, I'm playing something that looks good with ship interiors. A.K.A. Star Citizen. ED was only good because of VR. The engine was pretty dated, but VR makes you feel you're flying a damn spaceship instead of playing a game

This VR game was the first to make me realize the impact VR could have, making me feel completely immersed in space and experience a wide range of emotions. It was one of my first true VR experiences back in 2017, and I remember my friend and I making a delivery to a distant system. During the journey, I truly felt the immensity of space and a growing fear as I realized how vast the universe is and how small we are. The surrounding void was terrifying, with the silence weighing more and more heavily. At least my buddy and I were on a voice chat, which made it a tad more comforting. I will forever remember this moment.

Vr makes everything worth doing in Elite, like laser mining or space trucking between two stations. Piloting a fully loaded T9 though the mailslot never gets old. Core mining in VR is just a nerdgasm every time. And Thargoids are truly terrifying in VR. Elite is a great game but VR makes it Epic.

Spot on Reggie. It really does have to be seen. planetary sunsets get me every time.

They were never really forward looking with Elite. Basic VR was easy to implement. Judging by the state of the game and their refusal to even fix things like anti aliasing, it is no wonder that VR was left to rot. I agree that it was one of the best VR experiences out there. Period.

The majority of the community actually wanted Odyssey to be atmospheric planetary exploration (water worlds, earth-like worlds, volcanic worlds, etc) but Frontier wanted to cash in on the battle royal hype without putting in much effort. If they had listened to us back then, Elite Dangerous would have remained the best cockipit style spaceship sim in terms of entertainment. I have no doubt in my mind that the game would have even been able to gather enough funding to even add better on foot gameplay after a few years. Just imagine base restoration where you have to look for and kill a huge thargoid alien in the dark (alien video game). Or base defense (power plant) against a huge swarm of different thargoid drones like starship troopers. So much potential wasted because of bad executive decisions.

I actually won a free Quest 2 a few years back and completely agree with all your comments. Doing station evacuations, and fuel scooping specifically was just a real sight. after showing it off to show the wife (who only plays mobile games on her phone) a few times i actually came back from work to find her wearing my headset trying to do the game tutorials for a couple hours at a time

I built an entire PC VR rig. Got a HOTAS, bought multiple GPUs and have gone through multiple headsets. Mostly to play ED in VR and I loved it. Then they messed it up with that first person abomination of a flat screen. I still play but do NONE of the on foot actions and probably will not unless they make that VR capable. Sadly I find that it does make me play less

what makes VR ED work also is that basically the ships is made so you dont feel the G. So sitting in your chair is what it would feel like in the ship. so it bascially feels completely RIGHT to be in VR

The idiots are killing the goose that layed the golden egg.

I enjoy the "sad" story every time I can, 4600+ hours of it so far. Yeah they dropped the ball by not having on-foot VR. Want to see how close on-foot is to work in VR? 1. Disembark your ship, 2. Press F11 to launch the external camera, 3. Press the keypad numbers until your PoV is on the avatar's shoulder. You can now walk, run, etc while on-foot, all in full VR. To interact with the world, you need to return to the ugly gray flat window. Good video, thanks!

I agree with you on what you have stated in this video. I only play games now in VR and really don't enjoy any game in flat screen anymore. I was bummed out when Odyssey came out and you are taken to a flat screen in your headset. It would be awesome to walk on a moon and explore it on foot in VR, what an amazing and imursive thing that would be. Since we can't do that is why I no longer play the game, so sad for some of us.

the really disappointing thing bout odissey is that they spent like 15 min developing its """vr mode""" (the flat screen in grey). considering a smoking pause too. if you desembark, your position will be recenter (why???), and the same again (two times recenter? why the hell?) while reboarding. also, just pressing the photo mode and et voilà, FULL VR WORKING, you can even stuck the camera to your head's (approximately) character and do some things, such as exploring and walking and shooting and nothing more. why not just strap the hud to a fixed position like no man sky and letting all command and all mouse and keyboard? it works, it literally works even now, WHY NOT. it's a no brain feature for me to develop, like, i know people who are disposable to develop this FOR FREE but they're ignoring everything about.... i hope with new ships and their "we're fucked up with every our games, we have to revive the only working one even if it's really late" they could do some improvements... it's still my main game and these are basic features that should be considered before everything else. like, guys your game is literally gameplay basic features incomplete after years, come on....

VR in Elite Dangerous is underrated - It's a glorious experience, and one that is sorely missed by many since the changes. Nevertheless, this is a reminder that VR does have a big place in this game - Yes it is there, however, if it is ever fleshed out even more, the VR community will most definitely embrace it 'fully' once again.

>ron jeremy stiff OMFG YOU ARE A CERTIFIED WORDSMITH

Looking back, when Frontier announced no VR in Odyssey, for me that was the day I realised ED was never going to realise its full potential. After backing the game from day one it felt like a real betrayal. I have never really forgiven Mr Braben for that tbh.

When I first got Elite, I was ill the first couple weeks, and played it in 3-screens mode. Awesome. Then I put on the headset and never went back. It is a natural experience of wearing a helmet to fly a spaceship and every part of it was normal and natural. The only motion sickness was if you take off too quickly inside a space station. It was miles ahead of every other VR experience and most importantly was natural. It was also the only game I played with controllers, again it's a bit hard to type when you can't even tell where the desk is so navigation is very challenging. It was so good I'd show pretty much everyone the inside of a spaceship in VR. Frontier even showed off the VR aspect at events, though strangely they had more screens. I did try walking around when it became available, and not only was it unplayable in VR, it was unplayable without keyboard and mouse.

IMHO ED VR was never a Frontier work, it was one of the developers who did it privately (after feeling that Frontier failed their KS campain promise to have VR from day one) and when he left the company, VR development was stopped altohether unfortunately. I don't expect Frontier to do any good VR game let alone ED...

This vid made me pick up Elite in VR again. It's the only game that I really come back to now and then just to experience the wonders of space.

I had a great time in VR with E/D, I even purchased X52 HOTAS for full immersion(As the sticks in the game are actually X52!). I even join Newton's gambit and practiced FA off flying. I strongly agree with your point that FD have the best experience in their hands and they just decided to throw everything out of the window.

The first time i looked out from inside an Anaconda and the true size of it suddenly came into view, wow. The stations feel different, landing feels so much more precise and enjoyable.If only the galaxy map was more user friendly i would never play without it. Frontier could do so much with Elite, theres so much meat left on that bone. Would happily purchase an updated Elite VR, imagine it with a hand tracking u.i

Completely agree! I only played Elite in VR and it was for a couple of years a mind blowing vision of what the future could be: a world where we can literally escape reality and explore other worlds from our own home! But with Odissey I ditched Elite and VR for good… I would gladly pay several times the game price to have a decent VR experiences like that again !! I am patiently waiting for a brave developer to take the bold leap that frontier started - but abandoned - to update my rig and leave Earth once more !!

Absolutely brilliant. Love it. And you're so right on every point. I'm a noob, I've been playing Elite in VR for the past month, and I'm still giggling like a child at the sheer beauty of a planet and star just perfectly aligned. Incredible. I'd love to think it would get more focus as VR grows, but I just don't know if Frontier have the people, the money or the interest to turn this rough diamond into the sparkling gem it deserves to be. Only time will tell.

I've got roughly 2k hours in Elite VR and was raised in San Tu. 3v3 Matches in the belts was the most epic gaming experience I've ever had and I've played just about everything big under the sun since Math Blaster!

7:50 Had me rolling mate. Awesome video, I've been putting off playing Elite but you have convinced me to jump in. Cheers!

i have ptsd nightmares still from that one time i accidentally went into a neutron star in vr and barely survived

It's sad, so much promise. I stopped playing years ago after I lost hope they would update the VR Galaxy Map

For the best experience, I recommend adding AI to voice attack, getting a ButtKicker for your chair and killer headphones and a VR headset. It's phenomenal. You can feel the slightly shake or movement, and smashing into a space station or another craft is a jolting experience.

Space trucking in VR with a podcast or some youtube videos running is seriously one of the coolest things out there. Feels like being a real space trucker just doing the work.

As an alpha backer of Elite, at the time I was running Oculus DK2 and I upgraded my VR headset every couple of years since then. You have absolutely hit the nail on the head with this video. I had so much fun with Elite in the early years and loved it.. I will only reconsider reinstalling if they fix the VR pancake mode, if they don't that's fine too, I just probably won't buy another frontier game again.

Elite VR is by far the best VR game I have played. Odyssey was a massive downgrade to the VR system. Not only with the on foot mess they gave us, but also the very poor lighting and antialias that was introduced with Odyssey. Such a shame :( Great Video m8.

Never played any VR, let alone Elite (though I'm on it 2D every day). Loved the video and the chat was hilarious too. Well presented and very interesting.

Fun video! One underrated element of playing Elite in VR is that you don't actually need to look at the panels to raise them, you can make it so they only come on with a button press (it's a setting you can change in the menu if anyone reading this didn't know; I use the same binding as I'd use in pancake mode to bring the panels up), which means you can interact with the panels while flying without even looking at them (like, requesting docking without ever looking at the panel, and other stuff like that). Plus in VR I am alwayyyss looking all over to enjoy the view, and it bugged me that the panels would blip on because my head turned their direction. This also means you can keep a panel up and still fly like normal, which is nice when waiting for something to pop up on the targeting panel or when messing with synthesis while in a dangerous situation. For the Galaxy Map, I bound all controls to my flightstick and with practice it became as quick and easy as using a mouse in pancake mode (though I obviously agree the VR experience with the Galaxy Map should be a lot better). Basically I just fly the cursor to my destination, and if ya zoom out and then move the cursor then I cover ground quickly (and zoom back in for finer control). Ultimately after 3000 hours playing Elite in VR since 2015 (started on a DK2), I have a love/hate thing going with the game due to all the wasted potential. After all these years, I think the few devs they have working on the game just aren't into space-sims and barely play the game (and with what Frontier pays they might not be getting the cream of the crop), and I have no faith that anything good will ever be added in the future after the debacle of Odyssey. Still, the game is an amazing deal on sale and an awesome VR game, especially if someone sticks to Legacy/Horizons and avoids Odyssey completely (it still amazes me how badly they botched this game with Odyssey). So I recommend the game to new VR users all the time, but I can't see myself ever buying anything from Frontier ever again.

Oh you forgot one of the biggest crimes...Odyssey engine performance hit in VR. Game runs MUCH smoother in Horizons VR than Odyssey. How is your game performancewise? What multiplier are you using on HMD. Right now with my "old" 3060 Laptop I cannot go over 1.0x HMD. It turns into a slide show. An additional note: With quest 3 passthrough and Virtual Desktop and Reality Mixer from steam, you can open a "window" to reality to see your keyboard whenever you tilt your head down by 10 degrees. This enables use of keyboard and mouse in VR and makes transition from full VR to pancake in odyysey bearable.

Thanks for a great video. Had such an amazing time playing this game in VR back in 2018. The immersion and music still haunts me a bit in a good way. I stopped before Odyssey was released then came back briefly a few months back. They had lightning in a bottle and just abandoned the VR community probably due to a numbers game. If they suddenly announced they would add VR support to Odyssey (even without an IK body solution, or motion controller support) I believe it would bring many old players back and certainly attract a few new players. The number of VR headsets out in the world today is probably many times what it was in 2018....

Great video. I left ED when frontier abandoned VR support. They are clueless muppets who wouldn’t know decent gameplay if it bit them on the ass.

This is the bold truth Frontier Developments needs to see. I promise everyone, if Frontier fixes VR in Elite by giving it the time and effort it deserves, the community will be revived immediately. Not to mention that the gameplay is coming along again, it was nearly baron prior to Odessey and on release of Odessey, but I would've looked passed it if VR was still fully supported. Instead, they rushed to complete the game and scrapped the VR Project because it presented too many issues that would've delayed the release. Going after immediate income rather than a sustainable income and revenue. if the past 10 years of game releases has taught us anything, it's that gamers want a polished and working game. It Baffles me, that many game companies fail to see this over greed.

I stopped playing ED after Frontier announced that they stopped supporting VR.

I have an Eagle that I have kitted out for dogfighting in VR. Great visibility and maneuverability, and you really have to work to take down the big guys. Also, do it in a HIRES and it's _way_ more fun, as you get to use the rocks as part of your fighting strategy.

ED in VR and HOTAS with Voice attack with some HSC voices or ED copilot is the best space game or maybe best of all. real space commmander. o7

I ully agree to all you said. I bought my VR set for ED, and i never never never regret this. IO also bought ships only to see their cockpits in VR mode. in big ships, I also walked in my room to visit my cockpit. ED has so much potential. Please Frontier, go on developing it. Yopu have so much more to offer and I hope, bring back people who like Stafield, NMS or Star Citizen. Ed is a pure jewell.

VR brought me to Elite Dangerous for over 1000 hours, a game I wouldn't have touched otherwise. But seeing the developers abandon it is incredibly disappointing. Most players are adults with disposable income. Imagine the potential revenue if they'd capitalized on that! People sink a fortune building elaborate cockpits for this game alone. its sad

And let's not forget: Odyssey killed us Consoleplayers. It chopped our heads off, without a warning, without hope. After 1.624 hours of playing... 🎮⚰️

The day I stopped playing ED is the day they confirmed no VR for Odyssey and havent been back since that day many years ago. I got used to the other stuff but yeah that killed it for me.

Thank you for your honest opinion!! I also fell for the stupid Odyssee Addon and got totally disappointed that it shits on VR. Also I got tricked by different videos, from whioch I thought it would have VR. To all Elite Fans: Don't let YOUR fun get disturbed by those stupid developers!! Uninstall Odyssee and play YOUR Elite like the proud space-captain that YOU ARE and like YOU DESERVE to!!! :)

i play only in VR this is the way xD

Well said me old sun 😉. I've played ED once in VR on the old Oculus Rift a friend bought, it looked fantastic but as I wear glasses, I couldn't wear the thing for too long as it squeezing me nut, plus I missed being able to see my HOTAS and keyboard. So I opted for a head tracker instead. That was years ago, alas I've not played in some time due to RL getting in the way. Nicely put together video.

I've used the TrackIR experience... and the VR experience still blows it away.

924.9 hours in Elite. All in VR. That is why odyssey was such a letdown.

I still remember the first time I lunched the flight tutorial using my HTC Vive - it was breathtaking - one of the most immersive things I have ever experienced in VR. I was using a gaming laptop at the time that thermal throttled and I upgraded to a desktop because I wanted (and still want) the most amazing VR experience I can get. I love the cockpits - so far as the look goes, and dream of a game where I can interact with the cockpit in VR. I know combat is where most of the focus is for space sims, but I love the exploration. For me, the visuals and the journeys (love that it takes time to get places - space is huge and Elite is the one game that really seems to get that mostly right. It is so close to being a really great game - and then the developers seem to take it in directions that leave me shaking my head and wishing they loved the amazing experience they have created. I do understand one of the lead developers is looking to get the Star Citizen VR working... I am very much hoping that comes along in an update in the smae way and with the success of No Man's Sky VR mode - I have only played NMS in VR and could not play it any other way!

Great vid. It is so good in vr, so much so that I would/ could never play it again flat, period.

There are VR tools from third party that helps with in game browsing of websites. There is even a tool that can cut out a part of the game to show the real world, like your joystick.

I 100% agree with this review. VR is the best thing about elite dangerous and elite dangerous is the best thing about VR. The implementation drives me bonkers. I actually only play Odyssey in third person camera review over the shoulder of the character. It’s great for walking around Planets and hanging out in stations, but it’s essentially impossible to do any kind of combat. I also use the oculus link dashboard to open PC windows in my ship. I always have a couple of panels up with elite dangerous tools, a music player and a web browser. I usually put the panels on the dashboard to make it look like they’re part of the ship.

It's crazy to see a studio abandon their flagship game. I mean they were famous for the Elite games, but nowadays i guess the management games is what carrying the torch.

I just got my reverb g2 and i must say elite looks amazing in it. The map howerver. Being it system map or galaxy map.. It makes me cry. The controls are awful. I cant for the life of me figure out how to select/deselect something consistently. Sometimes it works and i think i figured it out to find out it wont work next time. Also, i noticed that quite often the game either crashes or WMR closes the game after i take off the headset for a few seconds. Not always, but it does most of the time. This makes looking things up online a pain in the ass when playing the game in VR. Is this normal or is there some setting i can change somewhere to change this?

It's not that VR is broken but, as a C64/Amiga player of Elite and DESPERATE for this to work I realised this is ... Work. After about 50+ hours I realised this actually felt like work. Don't get me wrong, I bought an OSVR headset many years ago and, initially in awe, I gave up. The grind is real. Far too real. What's the saying? 100 miles wide, 1 inch deep? (That's what she said!) I wish, I truly wish this had the PROPER MMO of Eve online then, totally would be THE game.

Can you imagine my surprise when getting my VR installing Elite as the first game and when getting that flat greybox crapshit, I thought something is wrong with my settings, device or even computer. It took me some time before I finally gave up browsing all the settings and looked into reddit to got punched right at solar plexus. Then uninstalled promptly without even experience the space part of the game as I could not swallow the bitterness it has created. The disbelief has still not evaded me. Then some one at you tube level showed that it is all the matter of setting the camera to take you away at least from the greybox area. But I am also surprised that no one has yet modded the Odyssey. But anyway, I'd love to see David Braben explaining this crap himself one day.

Yep, i play ED for the vr experience and that on foot is a shame. I only hope some modders can create something for the foot vr cuz Frontier its not interested on his customers or his promises. We paid for some product they did not finish in some aspects and they walk away like nothing happened, come on, hire some guy from the UEVR tool and fullfill your responsabilities as a business and developer. Dont shoot at the guys that give you the money. Great video, nice editing and agree in the majority of the story :) , sir.

It's all down to David Braben, he was always lukewarm about VR. He overthinks everything, and so does his team. So although they had a great VR game, they developed it as a 2d game. The gunner feature is a perfect example. I was expecting a Star Wars laser turret and we got an EVE online turd. They banned me from their forum in the end for complaining about it.

It's funny, driving around planetside in VR makes me nauseous as hell, but fling around in my ship does not.

Thank you for the video, you expressed my feelings about elite vr very well - I agree it was the best vr experience around, and I completely stopped playing when Odyssey released. Such a shame!

Excellent upload, cheers. Can't get away from the fact that ED is still, today, THE premiere VR experience. Absolutely stunning. On the subject of headsets, I went from Oculus Rift to Reverb G2. It's a great upgrade and with Revive, I can play most/all my old Oculus purchases (with some controller remapping). With the Pimax Light now available for order, and the Quest 3 as an option, which of these two would you choose and why? Are both able to play SteamVR and Oculus purchases?

I have never truely understood why so many players of ED have shit canned the game throughout its lifespan. From Frontier through till now, it’s far and away the most monumental game of its kind. Not perfect, but what is. You can literally do anything and go anywhere in ED. It’s the whole galaxy

Yep, pre ED:0 parts of Elite is mind blowing in VR - My path was OSVR, Vive, Vive Cosmos Elite and I ran my poor GTX970 into the ground with the Vive and Elite 😂 - I'm not knocking DCS, MSFS or Euro and seppo Truck Sim, but for sheer VR impact, the only things that have come as close to Elite for me have been Subnautica and Half-life: Alyx Even on the OSVR, I was staggered by the scale of the Anaconda, approaching it in the SRV. When I got the Vive, I remember the first time I looked down in the Asp X after exiting a station and getting vertigo - I was like a Kerbal first time in orbit 🤣 ... And ditto to all the superlatives you were throwing about during the video 👍 As to FDev flat-out stating they weren't going to be doing any further work on VR - Sir David Braben himself made some curious general comments on negative (human) impact of VR at the time of that FDev statement. I'm rather curious as to the cause(s) of the Brabester's apparent about-face on the matter. Early doors, he was a mad-keen VR enthusiast. I wonder what happened?

The best and fastest way to dock is to max shields, full thrusters boost into the mail slot wall, then boost into your landing pad before manuvering your landing gear into place. If you have a bigger ship, your shields won't even be dented. No need for fancy skills.

In Unreal I literally coded my own rudimentary mission-generator that stitches elements of that particular instance quite nicely...and I'm a relative novice. Obviously online makes it more complicated, I don't see why they couldn't add something similar into ED for long-term appeal. To me, that would make the game worth investing a lot of time into, instead of it being an overall grind. I would be wholeheartedly happy playing ED in VR or even 2D...if they would spend some time on making actual meaningful, story-based missions. I had kind of hoped that's what Odyssey would introduce, though there were never any indications that's what they were wanting to do. I kind of get a decent amount of the reasons they didn't do full VR for Odyssey (first-person motion sickness, performance due to higher poly-counts for architecture & areas, etc) -- but it did hurt the game as far as it continuing to receive praise and expansion buys.

ED in VR for years was my go to escapism tool. Flying in VR in this game was more like a meditation on vast space. All I wanted extra from it was ability to walk around the ship and perform some additional tasks and maybe have a mini game for hyperjump instead of seeing the same animation every time. It would be perfect spaceship experience for me. Because since the Oddysey was introduced, I have not came back to play the game, I decided to uninstall it.

I'm in the middle of your video and just bought the game. Hope it's not nausea inducing, and it really seems like it is haha!

I loved playing in VR, but going flatscreen whenever getting at of the ship sucked, so I left. Recently I came back Using head tracking as a compromise.

Great video! ED is literally the only game I play on Quest 3. I'm actually upgrading my PC to boost ED VR performance. What GPU and CPU were you using in the video?

Elite dangerous was one of my first vr experiences WAY back in the Oculus Developer Kit (2) days. It was a profound experience. THE most immersive experience I've had in VR (even to date). Unbelievable. Wish the game was better.

It’s all true. My usual mode is to just play flat screen. But if I know that in a particular session I won’t be doing anything that needs me to get out of the cockpit I’ll play in VR.

Your writing is hilarious. The Karl Marx metaphor was brilliant

"did a Harvey Weinstein and touched upon the stars..." 😂 First of your videos I've seen. Love it. I'm a long term Elite player but have yet to try VR (I use head tracking in Elite and MSFS) but after seeing this, I know I have to. I lose myself for hours already just drifting through the black, enjoying the view. That mini cinema screen for on foot looks shockingly bad though.

Disclaimer: No balloons were harmed in the making of this video.

Elite really needs to make a VR comeback. I bought the lifetime pass for what was advertised as a “fully VR from the ground up” game, I mean for crying out loud you could buy it on the oculus store! But anyways, if odyssey had motion tracked controller support, it would be INSANE.

The only thing that would save Elite is by focusing on its core, which is a spaceship simulator, and utilizing the strength of VR as a way to make the game more interesting. VR users may be even the better market as it shows that the users can afford the hardware required, and has income that can pay for whatever DLC content comes out for Elite Dangerous. Going down and competing in the first person shooter market was idiotic and burnt FDev.

I can't use the map in 2D. I am lost. Need to turn several times 90° to figure out where the curser actually is. To drive the buggy while listening to science fiction audio books is worth the money alone.

Owned this for a couple of years and am yet to play it. I had thought I could get my shed built in a few months, two years later the shed is up, drainage is almost done but I still have to line it and set up my game space. Got a Beyond a month or so back which I'm loving. Started with a PSVR setup then got a Quest, Pimax 5KXR now the Beyond. All OLED screened, LCD seemed a compromise too far for me. The night sky in Skyrim as seen with an OLED headset is not something I want to do without.

another tip is to use virtual desktop instead of link (for quest users) and open a quest browser over the game, just a button under one of the ship panles, to check things without getting of the hmd. but you can't still copying things to your pc and so not even in elite and it's a bit meh

The worst part about this is that if they added a pay to vr people would probably pay more for that than the python mk 2 😅

The implementation of VR support when on foot, or the lack there of, is what really left a sour taste for me. I'd be happy to get back in game should they improve the VR support. I'd probably even purchase some of the paid ships if they implemented ship interiors and let players walk about in VR and admire their ship.

I'm still recovering from P.O.D. (Post Odyssey Depression). This game was everything for me.

After I bought Odyssey, they announced they would not be committing to VR, I no longer had any interest in ED. I absolutely loved it in VR.

And here I am, patiently waiting for the PSVR2/PC adapter

Fully playable in VR on a i5 8600 with a GTX 1080... That was my system. A friend ran it on a 980ti. So sad that they've effectively abandoned the VR mode. Track IR is a valuable 2d alternative, but lacks the true level of immersion that the VR version had.

i pop into it now and again just because it looks and feels amazing. I'd be in it all the time if they fixed the navigation and tools. Totally agree its sheer brilliance in vr. They abandoned vr though and no chance they'll do anything else for it player numbers are dropping in spades so they aint going to waste time on vr progression

elite used to be my number one favorite vr game of all time. between lack of ongoing vr support, and no interesting updates to the game in years it made me walk away.

I actually just started playing in ED in VR having waiting to get a headset! It still looks great in Legacy horizons. I'm currently giving live horizons a go and its a mixed bag at best. I'll probably end up going back to legacy as it just looks better & is a much better VR experience.

Started in 2D but after the 1st VR experiance on the Rift S headset I can't return without VR!

You're lucky if Elite runs smoothly for you in VR. The legacy Horizons was well optimized, but after merging the Odyssey engine into the base game, it became laggy mess for me and i have a pretty high end PC. AMD Radeon 6800 XT + AMD Ryzen 5600X. I can still play in VR and outside of a station it's fine, but inside a station the FPS drop is significant, and if you join open play or a populated private group and run into more than 4 players, the game starts stuttering as CPU can't keep up.

I also have ED, it happens to many of us gamers playing in their 30’s. Even with the issues with lack of support, VR is still a great way to help with ED.

I use Steam VR and can use a Program called XS Overlay. I am able to browse the web and keep track of Chat (I stream it on Twitch/YT and X). I have no interest in on-foot gameplay. I use it only when I absolutely have to. The VR for Ships and SRV, and I am delighted with those modes. To each their own, I am still in love with this game.

So right. They have fumbled in Odyssey. As for using Inara etc., in the Quest 3 I can use the Meta button to bring up the panel and pin a browser panel with Inara on it, which works OK. But means fumbling for the VR controller next to my Hotas at times.

for the galaxy map one, i play it always in vr with hotas and sum keyboard binding. most of the times i just enter the copied name of the system from inara but for any case i have binded my hotas to fully navigate the map. it works really well, still not as fast as a mouse on a flat screen but immersive and functional